Become an Innovation Partner

When you fund the Tech Tank at Jumpstart South Central Wisconsin (JSCW), you become an Innovation Partner, investing in a community-driven Technology Hub designed to expand access, equity, and economic opportunity for entrepreneurs of color, women, and underserved founders across Rock, Green, Jefferson, and Walworth Counties.

As an Innovation Partner, your support helps:

Equip our makerspace Make608 with essential tech equipment, tools, software, and infrastructure to enable hands-on learning, product development, and digital entrepreneurship.
Provide affordable or free access to under-resourced entrepreneurs and community members who need computers, WiFi, mentorship, and training to build their businesses.
Fuel training sessions, workshops, and tech-pathway programs that build digital skills, foster innovation, and create jobs and business growth in historically excluded communities.
Maintain and expand our shared workspace so the Hub remains a welcoming, safe, and accessible place to ideate, make, test, and launch new ventures.

Impact & Giving Levels (Innovation Partner Tiers)

Your contribution — at any level — will help us build a region where every aspiring creator, inventor, and entrepreneur can turn ideas into reality.

Gift Amount	What It Supports / Means
$100	Helps provide 1 hour of shared-workspace access for a founder or aspiring entrepreneur.
$250	Covers materials and supplies for a hands-on workshop (prototyping, 3D modeling and 3D printing, AI training, coding tools).
$500	Funds a half-day training session on tech tools, software, or digital business skills.
$1,000	Equips the Tech Tank with a workstation or a piece of essential hardware (e.g. computer, 3D printer, design station).
$2.000	Helps underwrite a full cohort for a MakerLab / tech-skill development program for multiple participants.
$5,000 +	Title-level “Innovation Partner” status: major acknowledgment on the JSCW website, events, and materials; helps assure sustainability of operations and outreach to underserved entrepreneurs.

Your contribution - at any level - will help us build a region where every aspiring creator, inventor, and entrepreneur can turn ideas into reality. Jumpstart South Central Wisconsin is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are tax deductible.